Increase memory limit

Enable gzip

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php_flag zlib.output_compression on

Tip #2. Enable flat catalog structure

EAV model is being used by Magento to store customer and product data. This helps objectives to be incredibly extensible but at the same time it gives result in longer SQL queries and more reads. Instead of that it enables Flat Catalog for Categories and Products merges product data into one table .Performance is boost up in this process. Generally, all stores should enable Flat Catalog for Categories.

Tip #3. Merge CSS and JS files

Warning. This step will speed up and lower the requests number of your store, but it may cause some bugs if your JS scripts are not well-structured.

Tip #4. Load JavaScripts asynchronously

You can read more about how to load your scripts asynchronously.

Tip #5. Install full page cache

Enabling full page cache will certainly boost up store speed as in the case of it’s a file-cache system which will cache static blocks of your magento store. But there is a caveat -it should be of utmost importance to configure full page cache extensions properly. It is of paramount importance to define the block with its state i.e. static and dynamic. This can be understood by giving generic example below: Ajax cart is a dynamic block and CMS block is a static one

Tip #6. Defer JS

Moreover, to optimize Magento you ought to defer the execution of scripts so that the script will start loading only after the page is loaded.

Tip #7. Templates

Before purchasing a ready-made heavy template, you should be very particular in using it in live, if not optimize, as this template uses its own template engine. It contains many scripts and extension that invariably slow down the store performance.

Conclusion

Mentioned aforesaid are some of the basic tips to augment your store performance.
Remember: the faster your store is – the higher conversion rates you will get.

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